Color your thoughts

While I was looking for something interesting to write about, I found an article saying that our thoughts have colors. Since it seemed to be some interesting knowledge, I thought to share it with you.

Surprisingly, there are three types of thoughts just like the signal lights, that is to say, basically, our thoughts are either green, yellow, or red. let's take time to observe which color you are in.

Green thoughts

Just like the "go" signal, green thoughts radiate positive energy. They encourage us to move on and take risks to try new things. When your thoughts are green, you are more comfortable with yourself. Moreover, green thinkers are great achievers. They have a clear vision and enough determination to achieve their goal in life. Green is the color of our "heart Chakra" and thus, these thoughts allow us to think by heart.

Red thoughts

Angry, impatient, and terrifying thoughts are red. They keep you stuck in one particular situation and hold a gloomy perspective. Red thinkers are anxious and can 'create' obstacles even in a clear path with unnecessary worries. The lack of confidence caused by red alerts makes you a self-oriented person where survival instincts dominate. Red is the color of our "base or root chakra" and is predominantly fear-based.

Yellow thoughts

Yellow thoughts are neutral thoughts. These are a mixture of green and red thoughts and without being excessive. They allow us to feel peaceful or meditate without any green or red alerts. These are known as 'observer thoughts' since they allow us to evaluate red and green in the chatter in our heads. It makes you confident and more equipped to notice the situation running in your head.

Let's take a minute to decide the color in your thoughts. Then you can take charge and decide the color mixture of your own life. Begin to practice these steps to take charge of your inner coloring.

• start to notice the color of your thoughts
• be aware at any given moment of which colors you are creating 
• practice changing the lens- move from red to yellow, then yellow to green

https://innernorth.com/the-color-of-your-thoughts

Be you, yourself.

 

Be yourself regardless of what people think or talk about you. 

Most of the people in the world maintain a public and a private life. They act one way in private life and another way in public, because they feel like they can not be truly themselves without being judged. At least once in a lifetime there can be a moment where one feel uncomfortable with the false habits that they are following in front of others. You could be a different person to different people. Talented to another. Failure to one. Flawless to your lover. Stranger to someone. Quiet to one. Best to your friend. Worst to your enemy. Smart to one. Daring to another. Difficult to a lot. Unknown to the rest. It might be difficult to show your true self to others, yet being yourself is more important, as peace of mind and personal tranquility are the only factors which keep ones eternal happiness. Thus the question arises how a person can achieve a peaceful mind at the end of life, if the whole life is acted according to someone else's wishes and needs? Therefore, despite satisfying others, satisfy your own self and enjoy every little moment which makes you happy. Be you, yourself.

DEFORESTATION

Environmental pollution causes for many negative results, such as climate change and number of diseases. This picture is an indication of man's riskful life resulting by deforestation. The foreground shows people face a struggle to have enough oxygen from artificial oxygen tanks. It is mainly because, they have destroyed natural resources which provide natural oxygen for breathing. The foreground, the buildings of this picture highlights natural environment has changed into an urban area.  Hence, urbanisation can be seen as one of the major purposes of deforestation. In other hand, the tablet on man's hand points out technological development of man instead of morality as man doesn't love to environment and their major focus is on outward values. The mostly used color here is Ash. Using of this color can be seen as an attempt to indicate disappointment, negativity and futility of man's life. It is because usually Ash symbolizes pessimistic feelings. However, this picture specifies or warns about hardships people encounter in future dueto deforestation. 
 

Feminism Vs Equality

 

The concept of Feminism being the advocacy of women's rights and the belief that both sexes, men and women must be given equal treatment and the unbothered access to rights. Thus, this being  centered on women as a majority, the evolved concept of Equality is more regarded in the modern world, that being every person should be treated with equality despite gender, race or color. The concept of equality stands for itself being the goal that everyone ultimately desires, which is equality and tranquility of the modern world.

 

The patriarchal society that has been existing since the ancient times, has always cornered women and children and the rising evolution of women with the industrialization and modernization, men are not the only bread winners of a family, and thus, women also being independent have the right to ask for equal treatment and equal access to right as men. Women being women and belonging to one gender as a whole, have created and developed many activist and Feminist  societies/ institutions that support feminism and promote the concept of feminism worldwide. In the west, this has been successful now, this being the 21st century of modernization. In the east though, especially in countries like India, women are not at least given the basic right of education much less they are not given the right of free will. Thus, Feminists and the concept of Feminism worldwide is narrowed down to women and paving the way for women to get access to equal rights despite gender differences.

 

Equality goes beyond feminism and encapusules and covers a much broader area, being the expressive state and measure of treatments towards people on a whole, regardless of gender, color or race. On simple terms, it is equal treatment to all as human beings who are equally privilaged to assess human rights. This is not narrowed down to one sector, and any kind of discrimination, be it discrimination against women, race or color falls under this one concept of equality. The recent acts against the black people in USA and the movement " Black lives Matter" and that being changed into " All lives matter" is a perfect example of what equality stands for. The ideology and vision of Equality worldwide is to bring equal rights to every human, without discrimination or uniformed treatments to any party.

 

As the world is constantly changing and the new technology having unlimited access to the people's lives, discrimination as well as support is spread internationally within a snap. The discrimination of the black society as well as the ongoing discriminatory act known as "Asian hate" is wide spread with the use of the internet creating a despise among people. Also the access to international acts of discriminations are also easily accessed by the activist parties, be it feminist or equality, they are able to gather information and provide justice.

 

These concepts have a noticeable amount of power to create an impact to a situation where injustice is prominent but the importance of equality is more widespread and needed than feminism which is narrowed down to one sector. The discrimination or abuse is not focused on one gender, that being women but the abuses, hate and discriminations are more  concerned with races as well as the queer societies now than women as a secluded segment. However, both the concepts are focused on equal treatment and creating world peace and making the world a better, fair and a place of justice where everyone can live with comfort despite individualistic differences.

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In the 21st century, it is important to support youth in bringing attention to environmental and political disasters but teen-led activist voices have been a major threat to their lives.

Youth activism is an action that is spread all over the world and the United Nations states that today’s youth have inherited a planet ravaged by climate change and other disasters. As they look toward their future, they’re more motivated to be environmentally active than older generations — and they have more tools than ever before with which to make their voices heard through youth activism. Not only environmentally, but also politically youth activism is visible.

Young people from the Philippines, Kenya and Brazil tell `Climate Home News` why they took part in a global climate demonstration. Also, if some of the recent incidents are taken into consideration, youth activists of Myanmar are on the streets demanding for democracy to take back their country and very recently in Nigeria during the SARS protest. 

Not only that, we all noticed how Bhagya Abeyrathna exposed Sinharaja destruction in Sri Lanka. 

Although young people voice out their opinions for the betterment of their country or for the betterment of the world, there are instances where their lives are being threatened. Even Bhgya Senaratne had to face Police interrogation. Further, there are situations where the youth activists are murdered secretly.

According to United Nations Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake, "young people are incredibly resilient. Even Though they are one of the most vulnerable groups when it comes to these economic and political and environmental shocks, they also hold those answers. Also, they have the fantastic ability to reach across the divide and build coalitions in order to drive towards a common goal, which is often time holding the leaders``, but, upper hands those who think that youth voices are burdens, they try to remove those resistors.

__As a responsible community,  can you all ignore the voices of youth?__👀 

Babies👼🏻

"A baby is as pure as an angel and as fesh as a blooming flower" - Debasish Mridha

Babies are the purest beings in the world. They are genuine. Their feelings are original. They are fresh as flowers. Actually according to me babies are like freshly bloomed roses. They are not corrupted by the society. They are just innocent human beings who genuinely smile at us. Babies are super healers because their genuineness and pure smile can heal a heart in so many ways. Though they cannot speak well their eyes and smiling lips are more honest and original than adults. Adults are the corrupted version of babies. With the time babies become adults gradually killing the innocent and genuine beings within them. My question is why we cannot take that genuine baby with us as we grow old ? Is that because of the society ? We live in a world someone else imagined and we understand it when we become older. Babies are not like that. They live in their own fresh worlds and they are full of positive thoughts. As adults why we cannot build that fresh world ? Why we cannot be more honest and genuine as babies ?  Adults are the unluckiest beings and babies are the most luckiest in the world. Why we cannot continue our good luck as we grow up ? Where's the fault ? Babies are the creatures that evolved enough to convey pure love and they are hopeful unlike adults. We think adults are the teachers of babies but I don't agree with that because babies are the teachers of adults. Babies are more powerful than adults. Babies can clean and wash brains of adults but most of the adults don't know it. According to my view society will be more beautiful if we are able to carry our baby mind forever with us.

Youtubers In Sri Lanka

You tube is an open platform to present skills, market your products, educate people with knowledge and give messages etc. Who are these YouTubers and do we need them? Why they are important?

 Most recently this 'Youtuber' concept became viral in Sri Lanka. When comparing to Sri Lanka there are  various types of Sri Lankan YouTubers. For example there are technological experts, travel vloggers, social reviewers , artists , gaming experts & content creators including comedy artists. 

As YouTube is also a social media in present it became one of the fastest network where audience can find facts in both audio and visual mode. 

But who are these people called "YouTubers" simply they are the people who uploads videos to YouTube. According to Sri Lankan context most of the  YouTube channels  and YouTubers are trash because of the competition for viewers and subscribers. There are unwritten but famous  ways to become popular in YouTube industry - that are share gossips about some celebrity or public figure including their private life, market poor people, double meaning talks, naked/half naked videos etc.

But luckily in Sri Lanka there are so many influential YouTubers who share technological facts, motivational thoughts, beauty hacks, social reviews and even humor.    

But why these people important. This can be addressed by several point of views. As most of YouTubers are engaging in a rat race to gain viewers, subscribers they try to publish any sort of a video though it isn't useful or authentic. YouTuber can build a character as well as kill a character. The best example is the famous Sri Lankan YouTubers Wasthi Production' in their early stage without sophisticated technological sources they brought out real humor but comparing to now they they include so many thing by spending much money they lacks the quality of the videos and decency with zero creativity. But as soon as they upload a video millions of subscribers watch it comment on it saying it's bad. But it doesn't matter for them they build a brand they need viewers to get advertisements. This is not only for them most of Sri Lankan YouTubers are same. As they wanted to reach in trending list just upload some facts on burning social issue without having proper knowledge. because that a wrong message can be spread through out the world. And most commonly Sri Lankan YouTubers tend to market poor innocent people's life stories to gain viewers. 

As this is an open space the audience should use the platform by being intelligent because as mentioned both good and bad exist. The viewers can subscribe what needed and not to give popularity to useless channels and embrace the quality stuff, but the trash also needed to clarify and understand what is good.                                    

 

 

Depression Speaks

Fountain of tears,

overflowing through the little sapphires

Failing to find the single joy of the existence

 goes after a sweet unreachable fantasy 

Knowing that it flatters oneself 

Falls into the state where "I" is the only companion 

Yet within a second finding myself hating "me" 

With that fading voice of my heart 

The lonely cloud who listened aboard 

Goes further away and away... 

When the night passes the cold wet breeze washes hopes and dreams away, 

Me, with the meme neutral sapphires stares through "future's window" 

It's myself that wounded 

No more a reason be shaded

Tiring to run all the distance 

Begged "me", relax an instance 

Invain no more commas given,

Hugging my heart that forgiven 

Looking far away places,

The little innocence vanishes.

(Kasuni Geethandi,- 2019) 

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Does it need a reason  for you to cry? Don't you ever cry and afterwards wonder the reason why you feel sad or depressed? Or you are labeling me, "a psychopath"?

Pure Ceylon Cinnamon - Is it the next export trend?

 

The plant Cinnamomum verum is known as Ceylon Cinnamon or True Cinnamon, the speciality is that this cinnamon plan is only found in Sri Lanka, it is native to the island.  It is a small evergreen tree that belongs to the family of Lauracease, this consists of cinnamon from C. verum which is considered by worldwide culinarians to be of superior quality and standard and that is why many people prefer Ceylon Cinnamon over other types of cinnamon found in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and China.

The Ceylon Cinnamon plant or the Cinnamomum verum is a small tree that is green – brown in color consisting of leaves and fruits. It is only about 10 – 15 meters long and it has leaves that are ovate – oblong which on simple terms mean oval and long in shape. This plant will bear a flower which gives out a distinct odor and greenish in color, a fruit which is purple and it contains a single seed which is responsible on how these plants are cultivated. The bark of Cinnamon plants are mostly used to make the spices of Cinnamon. As this plant is very rare and only found in the grounds of Sri Lanka, it is given the name “ Ceylon Cinnamon” derived from the earlier name Ceylon, of the country.

The special interest that people worldwide show towards Ceylon Cinnamon has eventually enhanced and improved the commercialization and trading of the plant from Sri Lanka to the world, the distinctive taste and the health benefits of cinnamon continues to draw more people towards Ceylon cinnamon which is why it has become a bulk scale manufacturing and exportation source for the country. The plants are cultivated on lands on a large scale and then goes through a process of production to become the spice that everybody loves.

Cinnamon trees tend to grow as very leafy bushes which are about 10 feet tall (3 meters) in height when they are cross cultivated for the purpose of production. The trees are capable to be harvested for the first time once they are 3 years of age, and they continue to give the sources for production of spices for a period of over 50 years. A single plant will give multiple harvests in its life time. Almost all the parts of the Cinnamon tree are taken use in production. The branches are removed from the tree to access the bark, and the outer park is taken off and made into a mulch. The twigs, leaves and seeds known as berries are crushed to make cinnamon oil, a byproduct of cinnamon. The inner branch which is most valuable is loosened, split and peeled off to produce spices. The long and full straps of these known as ‘Quills’ of cinnamon are more valuable than the small broken pieces. The value is marked by the interest that people show and the worth that they put on the product initially and the labor that is used in the process of manufacturing. These Cinnamon Quills are then dried over for several days, in the sun, in the shade and then in darkness and all the work is done by human labor who are experienced and specialized in the field. That is one reason why Ceylon cinnamon is expensive. As the final step of production, the dried Cinnamon bark is cut into either sticks or grounded into powder and packed to be sold to consumers.

The health benefits and the taste of Ceylon cinnamon is preferred by consumers worldwide which has made the production of spices through cinnamon has become a large scale manufacturing and exportation product in Sri Lanka that provides a profitable income to the country as well.